COVID-Zero: Was It Worth It?
If COVID-19 was your ancestor’s saber-tooth tiger, then the lives lost every day to COVID-Zero is the cost of running away.
James Newburrie
· 11 min read
public health
A collection of 22 posts
On the Dangers of Big COVID
One need not posit some secret cabal of illuminati lizard people or the creation of a clandestine 5G-COVID bioweapon to make sense of the rise and potential dangers of Big COVID.
Michael Robillard
· 14 min read
The Social Determinants of Health: Critique and Implications
This overreach of public health also bleeds into the educational sector, where schooling is yet another SDOH requiring intervention.
Zachary Robert Caverley
· 12 min read
Winning the War on Coronavirus
The governments of the US, UK, and other nations have made real progress, but they must go much further in being transparent about their vision of how to win the war on coronavirus, and what they are doing to achieve it.
Michael Shellenberger
· 9 min read
Dealing With a Once-In-A-Century Pathogen
Measures implemented too early are deemed “alarmist,” if implemented too late, “negligent.”
Claire Lehmann
· 8 min read
Motivated Reasoning Is Disfiguring Social Science
The bottom line is that professional guilds such as the APA and AAP have a demonstrable track record of unreliability when speaking on matters of science.
Christopher J. Ferguson
· 8 min read
Plastic Pollution is a Real Problem—and It Won't Be Solved by Straw Bans
Majority of micro-plastics emerge as a waste product from the laundering of synthetic clothing and the wear-down of synthetic rubber automobile tyres.
Andrew Glover
· 6 min read